English idiosyncrasies and idioms

Note: CFCA does not in any way promote one language over another. We respect all cultures. This post merely acknowledges the difficulties people face when translating words and phrases into another language.

English can present difficulties for people who haven’t grown up with all its idioms and idiosyncrasies. Yet it’s increasingly the international language of business.

If you write to your sponsored friend in English, you’re helping your friend learn a language that will almost certainly help in a future career.

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Thank you so much for sharing this with us. It is amazing the work being done by so many CFCA translators around the world. They do the best they can to offer a quality translation eventhough, most of them, have never been in an English speaking country. We also thank our dear sponsors for embracing the language differences, you are AWESOME. So next time you read, “My house is made out of wood walls, metal roof and earth floor”, laugh as much as you can and then try to figure it out! May God bless you all.

This made me laugh! For my part I missed a few verb conjugations in Spanish, which elicited some blank stares during a mission awareness trip to Chile. I really encouraged native Spanish speakers to correct me, though. Otherwise I never learned!